“There are some people that you meet in life that you just know that they are not going to live to be a 100 years old,” he explained. “In some ways, you kind of prepare yourself emotionally for that to be a reality.”

However, Grohl, now drumming with John Paul Jones and Josh Homme in Them Crooked Vultures, said that Cobain‘s death still came as a shock.

“It was a terrible surprise,” he said. “It was probably the worst thing that has happened to me in my life. I remember the day after that I woke up and I was heartbroken that he was gone. I just felt like, ‘OK, so I get to wake up today and have another day and he doesn’t.’

“Usually it takes something like that for people to appreciate life as a gift and you have to take advantage of the time that you have. Sometimes you just can’t save someone from themselves.”